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INDEPENDENCE — Grayson County’s finances are improving, so much so that the county is considering reducing its line of credit — and officials are praising citizens for the upswing.
Treasurer Junior Young presented a financial collections and condition report to the Grayson Board of Supervisors on March 10.
Young told the board that real estate collections in 2010-11 are $2.2 million ahead of collections for the same period in 2009-10.

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These sentences were recorded in December of 2010, in the Carroll County General District Court Office, Hillsville. Sentences may be appealed:

Jared Christopher Ogle and Tammy Crowder McGuire announced their engagement.
Ogle is the son of Donnie and Janet Ogle and the grandson of the late Elmo and Mary Jane Ogle, Ruth Aldred and the late Paul Aldred.

McGuire is the daughter of Kathy and Frank Delp and the late Dana Crowder. She is the granddaughter of Harold and Geneva Funk and the late Junior Cornett, Robert and Shelby McLean and the late Melvin Crowder.
A spring wedding is planned.

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hanks of Williamsburg announce the engagement of their daughter, Elizabeth, to Jeffrey Stricker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Stricker, formerly of Williamsburg.
Hanks is the granddaughter of the late Rufus and Izetta Crowder and the late Edgar and Elizabeth Hanks, all of Carroll County.

Stricker is the grandson of Irene Hiatt and the late Samuel Hiatt, also of Carroll County.
Both Hanks and Stricker are 1999 graduates of Jamestown High School.

Mr. and Mrs. John Byrd recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.
He is a native of Baywood and was graduated from Galax High School in 1951. Lorena Byrd is a native of Sheldon, Iowa.

They met while students at Milligan College, Tenn., and were married in Paris, France, where he was stationed with the U.S. Army.
John Byrd taught at Galax High School 1958-1966. Lorena held temporary teaching positions at Fries High School, Independence High School, Oakland Elementary, and Galax High.

Still well remembered in music circles as a unique old time piano player, Haywood Blevins tells stories and tickles the keys in three CDs released by his daughter. Frances Moore, now of Wilkesboro, N.C., released the recordings as a tribute to her father, the well-respected musician who was born in Baywood in 1906.